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Assembly Bill A7947

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of residential automatic pesticide misting systems

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2025-A7947 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6680
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §33-1301, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8358
2023-2024: S3210

2025-A7947 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of residential automatic pesticide misting systems.

2025-A7947 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7947
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   prohibiting the use of residential automatic pesticide misting systems
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  33-1301 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
   14. FOR ANY PERSON, ON AND AFTER THE FIRST OF JANUARY NEXT  SUCCEEDING
 THE  EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION, TO INSTALL OR UTILIZE ANY RESI-
 DENTIAL AUTOMATIC PESTICIDE MISTING SYSTEM IN THIS STATE.  FOR  PURPOSES
 OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  "RESIDENTIAL AUTOMATIC PESTICIDE MISTING SYSTEM"
 MEANS ANY DEVICE THAT IS DESIGNED TO BE INSTALLED ON, NEAR OR AROUND THE
 EXTERIOR OF ANY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OR THE GROUNDS OF SUCH  RESIDENTIAL
 DWELLING  AND  TO  AUTOMATICALLY  SPRAY  ANY PESTICIDE SOLUTION AT TIMED
 INTERVALS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11044-01-5

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